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Highly-decorated former NY cop, with fascinating, inspirational bio, has first novel published to rave reviews from top authors, directors.

Las Vegas, Nevada – December 10, 2012 – When he was four years old, in Brooklyn, he lost his mother to cancer on her wedding anniversary. Two years later, his father succumbed to the same disease. He then lived with his grandmother, who became his second mother. She died when he was ten.

This is NOT the novel, this is the actual childhood of former police officer Daniel O’Connor, and it is only the beginning of his incredible personal story. When asked by Suffolk County Police applicant investigators how one with such a start in life could manage to pass their rigorous drug, polygraph, psychological and background tests, Daniel had a one-word answer: Reading.

It is Daniel’s goal to inspire young people who may be feeling that the world is against them to know that anything is possible, no matter how dire their current situation.

THE NOVEL: SONS OF THE POPE by Daniel O’Connor with Peter Randazzo

In Brooklyn, before the murders, before the miracle, before the 1940s were gone forever, there was a tree.

If only they let that tree alone.

Experience the richness of a story that spans half a century. Love and hatred. Devotion and betrayal. Murder and miracles.

“Daniel O’Connor’s ‘Sons of the Pope’ reveals an interesting new talent with a snappy style. This is someone’s career to watch.” – ANDREW NEIDERMAN, 100+ million-selling author of “The Devil’s Advocate” and many V.C. ANDREWS novels.

“This is a very visual novel and the attention to detail is so rich that I could smell the dirty water dogs from the NYC street vendors. Bravo!” – ROMEO TIRONE, Director ( “Dexter” , “True Blood”, “Nurse Jackie”)

“You’re reminded of music that you forgot about long ago. Joey is drawn to music in a way that you or I could never understand. With a particular love of the Beatles, his story is intertwined like a beautiful counter melody among the most foreboding dirge. Joey is lightness and innocence in a world of darkness and death that, through no fault of his own, is thrust upon him time and again. Woven through the story are references to songs that set the scene beautifully. You can hear Glenn Miller coming over the scratchy airwaves, the unique sound that is a record being played on a turntable, the neighbor’s radio playing too loudly on a summer night. It’s the nuances that Daniel adds that make this such a richly rewarding read.” – Melissa Martinez, Rock Over America magazine

In bookstores, at Amazon and B&N on 12/12/12. Also available for Kindle and Nook!

SONS OF THE POPEIn Brooklyn, before the murders, before the miracle, before the 1940s were gone forever, there was a tree.

If only they let that tree alone. Sick as it was, if only they nurtured it instead of ripping it from the earth.

If that sycamore tree was allowed to stand, then maybe Biaggio Falcone would never have been the head of the Campigotto crime family.

If they just let that tree be, then perhaps little Joey Salerno would not have been born like that.

Joey’s father, Sal – just home from World War II – would probably never have gotten involved with the New York underworld.

Mary Salerno wouldn’t have had to spend her entire life caring for an eternal child.

Joey’s brother Peter might have enjoyed a life unburdened by guilt – and he probably wouldn’t have had that gun shoved in his face when he was seventeen.

Many more people might still be breathing. Perhaps nobody would have fallen from that Times Square hotel window on New Year’s Eve.

If only they left that simple tree alone.

There would be no need for the wheelchairs, the walkers, or the hospitals.

No need to run numbers for the Brooklyn mob.

Some would be successful businessmen today, instead of just meals for the creatures of the brine.

That young woman would not have thrown herself from the Brooklyn Bridge during its centennial year.

If that sycamore was just permitted to stand, there would have been no reason, four decades later, for that desperate pilgrimage to Lourdes, France. No need for Pearl Gholston to venture across those tracks, or for anyone to call upon the one known only as The Diabolist.

You are cordially invited into the world of Salvatore Salerno. Experience the richness of a story that spans half a century. Love and hatred. Devotion and betrayal. Murder and miracles.

Sons of the Pope is a new novel, written from the heart. It has come from the heart of Brooklyn.

“Daniel O’Connor’s ‘Sons of the Pope’ reveals an interesting new talent with a snappy style. This is someone’s career to watch.” – Andrew Neiderman, Author of “The Devil’s Advocate”, and many V.C. Andrews novels.

“If I like what I’m reading I lose all track of time. I opened ‘Sons of the Pope’ on a runway at LAX. Next thing I knew, it was 3 hours later and we had passed Iowa. This is a very visual novel and the attention to detail is so rich that I could smell the dirty water dogs from the NYC street vendors. Bravo!” – Romeo Tirone, Director (“Dexter”, “True Blood”, “Nurse Jackie”)